On Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:40:40 +0000 Andy Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 09:17:49PM +0200, Jan Claeys wrote: > > On Tue, 2026-04-28 at 18:03 +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > > gmail often errs on the side of not accepting email or sending it > > > to spam folder, even when the sender is also from gmail. > > > > Worse, it accepts mail & then doesn’t deliver it (sometimes not > > even to the Spam folder). It’s just not a reliable service to use, > > period. > > A Google employee on the "mailop" mailing list once said that there is > absolutely no intentional way for gmail to silently discard an email, > unless a user with a Workspaces account has added filtering rules to > do that. > > On the other hand, as someone whose business sends out invoices by > email, I have had recipients at gmail.com swear that they only paid > late because "we never received the email", despite me showing Exim > logs where gmail accepted it. > > So I honestly do not know who to believe on that particular point. > > > If they want reliable e-mail, people should move to other e-mail > > solutions instead. > > I can only assume that it's not actually that important for most > users, and they would rather occasionally lose email and blame it on > gmail than actually take some action to improve matters. > "Anything free is worth what you pay for it" -- Joe
